I don’t brag but I’ve been fortunate that some of the things I’ve done have garnered some attention by well-known people in the social media sphere, even picked up by various publications as well.
Twitter testing new Shopping Cards
Usually when new features are being tested, it’s done in more mature established markets (e.g. USa, UK, India, etc.). This discovery made by me showed up for an account in Qatar, and the news started to spread wildly when Matt Navarra published it attributing the source to me.
- Digiday
- Android Central
- SlashGear
- Mashable
- Techradar
- 9To5Mac
- TechCrunch
- Hypebeast
- Social Media Today
- Times Of India
- Hindustan Times
- Business Standard
- Zee5
- Asianet
YouTube pre-publish copyright checks
This new discovery was made when I was uploading a video, and then tipped off Matt about it. Got picked up by the following publications.
- Engadget
- Gizmodo (Australia, Brazil)
- Hindustan Times
- XDA Developers
- TorrentFreak
- Entrepreneur
- PC Mag
- Yahoo! Finance
- Plagiarism Today
- Techspot
- EveryEye (Italian)
Certain publications started covering the news, but the content of their wrote up hints that they were briefed by YouTube under strict embargo. This is evident from The Verge publishing the same announcement but published after my discovery.
Even 9to5Google referenced the tweet by linking to it, but it seems they also discovered it before but didn’t publicize it. It’s likely that the feature was scheduled to roll out soon.
Below are just some of the fame moments I’ve witnessed
TEDxEducationCity 2012: Gulf Times
TEDxYouth@Doha 2011: Gulf Times and Gulf Times
